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Headlines for July 12, 2012BANKS SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO DEPRIVE CITIZEN OF SHELTER - ARMENIAN OFFICIAL
YEREVAN. - A bill obliging creditors to take away the last penny from citizens is being reviewed in Armenia currently, the head of the Service for Compulsory Enforcement of Judicial Acts Mihran Poghosyan ...JEALOUS MAN TRIES TO STRANGLE LOVER IN SCHOOL PLAYGROUND IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - Armenian News-NEWS.am found out new details about the incident in which a man had tried to strangle a woman at a school playground in Yerevan.According to reliable sources, the man acted on ...DENIAL OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BY TURKEY ABSURD - LAWRENCE SCHNEIDERMAN
YEREVAN. - Armenian News-NEWS.am presents pieces of Vanderbilt University public policy Professor Lawrence Schneiderman's article published in Eurasia Review:According to the United States Holocaust Memorial ...ANNUAL FASHION SHOW HELD IN MEMORY OF DECEASED ARMENIAN TEEN
They still weep when they recall the picture: their daughter in her room, the pink walls decorated with posters of the Jonas Brothers. They see her there sketching in a notebook the dresses and blouses ...FIVE ARMENIAN JEWS WHO SURVIVED HOLOCAUST SEEK COMPENSATION FROM GERMANY
YEREVAN. - There are five people in the Jewish community of Armenia who survived the Holocaust, and now may receive compensation from Germany, the head of Jewish community in Armenia Rima Varzhapetyan-Feller ...ARMENIAN OPPOSITION'S UNITED PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE MIGHT NOT REPRESENT ANY POLITICAL FORCE - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Hayots Ashkharh daily writes that Armenian opposition ARF Dashnaktsutyun Party Supreme Body representative Arsen Hambardzumyan has said:"The [2013] presidential elections are not an end unto ...ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT'S YOUNGEST MEMBER DECIDES TO CHANGE CONSTITUTION - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Armenian National Assembly's (NA) youngest MP Hayk Grigoryan has decided to make changes in Article 4 of the Constitution, Zhoghovurd daily writes. "Since Grigoryan's 'sponsor' is Syunik ...PROSPEROUS ARMENIA PARTY'S CANDIDATE IS THE PRESIDENT? - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - "One of the arrangements reached when signing the memorandum also was that if any one of the signatory political forces did not wish to support this memorandum, they must make a [respective] ...IMPRISONED FORMER ARMENIAN POLICE OFFICIAL TO BE GRANTED PARDON? - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Armenia's former Police Criminal Investigation Department Chief, Police Major General Hovhannes Tamamyan, who was sentenced to four years in prison on charges of misusing official power, could ...WEST'S DRAFT RESOLUTION ON SYRIA THREATENS DAMASCUS WITH SANCTIONS
The draft resolution of UN Security Council gives the Syrian government 10 days to cease hostilities. Otherwise, the document at the disposal of AFP says, there economic and/or diplomatic sanctions will ...YEREVAN BALLOON BLAST'S CAUSE IS DETERMINED - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - High air temperature and effect of open fire were the cause for the methane-gas-filled balloons' explosion at Armenian capital city Yerevan's Republic Square on May 4, during the public rally ...ARMENIA'S FORMER FM TO APPEAL INVESTIGATOR'S DECISION TO LAUNCH CRIMINAL LAWSUIT
YEREVAN. - The Civilitas Foundation's founder, former FM, and Prosperous Armenia Party MP Vartan Oskanian's representative, attorney Tigran Atanesyan has petitioned to the Court, Armenian News-NEWS.am ...ARMENIAN COULD BE SENTENCED TO UP TO 12 YEARS IN RUSSIA
The District Court of Chelyabinsk, Russia, on Thursday will commence publicizing its ruling into the case on the large-scale disorderly conduct that occurred during the "Tornado" rock festival. And the ...ARMENIA'S JUSTICE MINISTER EXPLAINS WHY WOMEN'S MARRIAGE AGE SHOULD BE RAISED TO 18
YEREVAN. - Setting the same age—that is, 18—as the minimum marriage age for men and women alike in Armenia's Family Code stems from the need to eliminate gender inequalities, Justice Minister ...YAKUTIYAN CULTURE MINISTER SAYS AVATAR SHOT BASED ON YAKUTIYAN EPIC
James Cemeron's "Avatar" movie was shot based on the epic of the people of Yakutiya, federal subject of Russia located in the north east of the country. The statement was made by Yakutia's Minister of ...DIYARBAKIR MAYOR WELCOMES BUSINESSWOMAN FROM ARMENIA WITH ROSES (PHOTOS)
DIYARBAKIR. - Mayor Osman Baydemir of Diyarbakir, Turkey, received a group of businesswoman from Armenia, who had arrived in the city to cooperate with their Turkish colleagues (PHOTOS). And Baydemir ...CASES OF ILLEGAL TREE CUTTING CONTINUE IN ARMENIA
Armenia's Gugark police officers stopped Ford Transit vehicle on Thursday night with the suspicion that it was carrying illegally cut trees, Armenian News-NEWS.am informs.During the investigation, the ...US AND ARMENIAN GOVERNMENTS LAUNCH ANTI-CORRUPTION AWARENESS PROJECT
YEREVAN.- U.S. Ambassador to Armenia John A. Heffern and Armenia's Deputy Prime Minister Armen Gevorgian officially launched a joint anti-corruption awareness project at Zvartnots International Airport ...OSCE SEES NO ALTERNATIVE TO PEACEFUL RESOLUTION OF KARABAKH CONFLICT
YEREVAN. - The OSCE Secretary General, Lamberto Zannier is concerned over recent incidents on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan and on the Line of Contact, he told reporters in Yerevan on Thursday. Zannier ...OSCE HEAD EXPECTS ARMENIA WILL IMPROVE ELECTION PROCESS
YEREVAN. - The OSCE Secretary General, Lamberto Zannier expects Armenia will improve election process. During the Thursday press conference in Yerevan, Zannier welcomed the peaceful conduct of the parliamentary ...HAD EUROPE BEEN CONSISTENT AT THE TIME, AZERBAIJAN WOULD NOT HAVE PERMITTED ITSELF SUCH THING - ARMENIAN MP
YEREVAN. - The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA) session, which was held in Monaco on July 5-9, took place at a time when there are worrisome developments ...OSCE PA AZERBAIJANI DELEGATION WAS IN ABSURD SITUATION - ARMENIAN DELEGATION HEAD
YEREVAN. - Azerbaijan once again appeared in an absurd situation at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA) session, which was held in Monaco on July ...ARMENIA'S POLICE DETAIN GEORGIAN WANTED IN FINLAND
YEREVAN. - Officers from Armenia's Police took under custody Roman Ghazaryan, 33, in capital city Yerevan, on Wednesday at 10:30pm. He was wanted ever since June 27 on charges of robbery. Ghazaryan ...ARMENIA CONTINUES EFFORTS INTO FINDING SPEEDIEST RESOLUTION OF KARABAKH CONFLICT - FM
YEREVAN. - There is no alternative to peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict, Armenian FM Edward Nalbandian told reporters on Thursday during a joint press conference with OSCE head Lamberto Zannier. Asked ...26 NEW ANTI-HAIL STATIONS ARE SET UP IN ARMENIA'S 3 REGIONS
YEREVAN. - A total of 26 new anti-hail stations were recently set up in Armenia's three regions. From them, 13 stations are placed in the Aragatsotn Region, 10 stations are positioned in the Armavir Region, ...TURKEY IS STILL UNABLE TO CONFRONT ITS HISTORY - ARMENIA'S FOREIGN MINISTER
YEREVAN. - Turkey cannot face its own history to this day, Armenian FM Edward Nalbandian stated Thursday during his joint news conference held with Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe's ...ARMENIAN SOCIETY COMMITTED TO PEACE - EDWARD NALBANDIAN
YEREVAN.- Overwhelming majority of Armenia's citizens are committed to peace, Armenian FM Edward Nalbandian said at a joint press conference with OSCE head Lamberto Zannier in Yerevan. Commenting on ...ARMENIA ACTIVE OSCE MEMBER - LAMBERTO ZANNIER
YEREVAN.- The OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier said Armenia is an active member of the organization. The Secretary General said that the 20 years of Armenia's participation in the CSCE/OSCE marked ...ARFD DOES NOT RULE OUT POSSIBILITY OF CHOOSING SINGLE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FROM OPPOSITION
YEREVAN.- ARF Dashnaktsutyun said it considers a priority to chose a single presidential candidate from the opposition based on its principles, as one political force is not capable of making crucial ...UNDP SUPPORTS SEVAN MUNICIPALITY TO REDUCE ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION LEVELS
SEVAN. - Dafina Gercheva, UN Resident Coordinator/UNDP Resident Representative in Armenia and USAID/Armenia staff visited the town of Sevan on July 12 to tour the waste collection and recycling activities ...ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT VICE CHAIRMAN RECEIVES CHINESE AMBASSADOR
YEREVAN. - Armenia's National Assembly (NA) Deputy Speaker Eduard Sharmazanov on Thursday received Chinese Ambassador Tian Changchun. They pointed to Armenia's and China's great potential to strengthen ...ARMENIAN BRANDY TO BE IN COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS
YEREVAN.- Armenian government decided to install additional safety indicators on Armenian brandy producers. Physical and chemical parameters will be introduced as well and some of them will be brought ...WOMAN DISPOSES SECRET WEAPON KEPT FOR 30 YEARS IN ARMENIA
On Wednesday a 55 years old woman visited Armenia's Gyumri City Police department and disposed 3 rusty Mosin-Nagants and 122 bullets of various caliber. The woman stated that the weapons belonged to the ...FORMER FRENCH PRESIDENT'S SON TO PERFORM IN YEREVAN
YEREVAN. - France's former President Nicolas Sarkozy's son Pierre, whose stage name is DJ Mosey, will perform at Armenian capital city Yerevan's Lovers' Park on Saturday at 7pm. Pierre Sarkozy's being ...DOLLAR CONTINUES ITS DOWNWARD "TREK" IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - The US dollar's average exchange rate against the Armenian Dram (AMD) comprised AMD 411.6/$1, at NASDAQ OMX Armenia stock exchange on Thursday, and this is a 0.42-percent—or a 1.75-point—fall ...ARMENIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS CALLS TO HOLD SPECIAL PARLIAMENTARY SESSION
YEREVAN. - Opposition Armenian National Congress' (ANC) National Assembly (NA) Faction issued a statement with an initiative to convene a special NA session. "Considering [the fact] that the crimes that ...FRENCH DIRECTOR PIERRE SCHOELLER PRESENTS HIS FILM AT GOLDEN APRICOT
YEREVAN.- French director Pierre Schoeller's "Minister" movie is one of those included in the "Feature Films" program of the 9th annual Golden Apricot international Film Festival. Talking to reporters ...OUR DONORS HAVE DIFFERENT RELIGIONS - CIVILITAS
YEREVAN. - For already 9 days tax inspections are being conducted in Armenian Civilitas Non-profit organization based on the application of the Armenian National Security Service (NSS). The inspections ...ARMENIA'S FM, NEW COE DEPUTY SECRETARY GENERAL DISCUSS ARMENIA'S COUNCIL CHAIRMANSHIP IN 2013
YEREVAN. - Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian on Thursday received Council of Europe's (CoE) newly-elect Deputy Secretary General and CoE Director General for Projects, Gabriella Battaini-Dragoni. Nalbandian ...90 YEARS IN SAN FRANCISCO FLOWER BUSINESS - HOOGASIANS
SAN FRANCICO. - Larry Hoogasian's family is in flower business for already 90 years. He knows the aromas of many flowers but he still prefers the humble carnation."They've gotten a bad rap. Commercial ...ARMENIAN OPPOSITION TO INVITE EXTRAORDINARY PARLIAMENT SESSION
YEREVAN. - The Parliamentary group of opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) took a form from Armenian Parliament Speaker at 5.55 p.m. on Thursday for inviting an extraordinary parliament seating, ...DOLLAR FLUCTUATIONS IN ARMENIA TO CONTINUE - ARF MP
YEREVAN. - US Dollar exchange rate fluctuations will continue in Armenia, since they are directly influenced by external processes, in particular, fluctuations of prices of basic commodities, ARF Dashnaktcutyun ...ARMENIAN OPPOSITION MEMBER SAYS DAVIT SHAHNAZARYAN HAS NOT LEFT OPPOSITION BLOC
YEREVAN.- The opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) member claims that Davit Shahnazaryan formally had not left the bloc but only refused to be a member of the central office."Any member of the ...ARMENIA TO EXPORT WILD WATER ANIMALS TO EUROPE
YEREVAN. - Armenia exports wild water animals to Europe. On Thursday the Government affirmed the certificates on the animals' health condition. Some experts consider that by saying 'wild water animals' ...AZERBAIJAN'S TALKS ABOUT AZERBAIJANI COMMUNITY IN KARABAKH SENSELESS - OFFICIAL
STEPANAKERT. - The words of the Azerbaijani MFA's spokesperson Elman Abdullayev that 'the Azerbaijani side has always tried to organize meeting between the Armenian and Azerbaijani communities' of Nagorno ...ARMENIAN PRESIDENT RECEIVES OSCE HEAD
YEREVAN.- Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan received on Thursday the delegation headed by OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier. President Sargsyan said Armenia attaches importance to cooperation with ...CHILEAN DIRECTOR LEIV BRINGS HIS SUMMERTIME TO GOLDEN APRICOT IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN.- Chilean director José Luis Torres Leiv is not a new comer at the Golden Apricot International Film Festival in Armenia.First time he presented a documentary at the festival several years ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1864 Birth of satirist Harootyoon Alpiar. He died in 1919.
- 1923 Creation of the Bureau of History of the Communist Party of Armenia as an adjunct to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia.
- 1924 Under the initiative of the Norwegian scholar Friedthof Nansen, the League of Nations decides to grant Nansen Passports to the Armenians who had survived the Armenian Genocide.
- 1933 Death of the writer Nar-Dos (Meekael Hovhannissyan) in Tbilissi (Georgia). He was born in 1867.
- 1934 First issue of the "Communist" newspaper (property of the Central Committee of Armenia's Communist Party, Yerevan's City Committee, and the Central Executive Committee of the Armenian SSR).
- 1938 Opening of the first session of the Armenian SSR Supreme Soviet's first convention.
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